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Laughing Through Life: 103 Inspiring Charlie Chaplin Quotes

Looking for inspiration and laughter? Dive into the world of Charlie Chaplin with “Laughing Through Life: 103 Inspiring Charlie Chaplin Quotes.” Discover the wit and wisdom of this legendary comedian and actor as he shares timeless lessons on life, love, and laughter. These quotes will brighten your day, uplift your spirits, and remind you of the power of humor. Get ready to be inspired by the genius of Charlie Chaplin and embrace the joy of laughter in your own life.

Best and Famous Charlie Chaplin Quotes About life, love , sadness, happiness

1- “You’ll find that life is still worthwhile, if you just smile.” -Charlie Chaplin

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2- “If people know how it’s done, all the magic goes.” -Charlie Chaplin

3- “Man is an animal with primary instincts of survival. Consequently his ingenuity has developed first and his soul afterwards. The progress of science is far ahead of man’s ethical behavior.” -Charlie Chaplin

4- “I am not a political man and I have no political convictions. I am an individual and a believer in liberty. That is all the politics I have.” -Charlie Chaplin

5- “Imagination means nothing without doing.” -Charlie Chaplin

6- “Although some we rarely see, the thought of them is comforting, like the pleasure of knowing there is a mooring somewhere, if occasionally we want to sail into port.” -Charlie Chaplin

7- “My pain may be the reason for somebody’s laugh.But my laugh must never be the reason for somebody’s pain.” -Charlie Chaplin

8- “Only the unloved hate; the unloved and the unnatural.” -Charlie Chaplin

9- “It’s easy to judge. It’s not so easy to understand.” -Charlie Chaplin

10- “I see so little of you these days; your presence is as rare as that of one’s discarded mistress.” -Charlie Chaplin

11- “Like everyone else I am what I am: an individual, unique and different, with a lineal history of ancestral promptings and urgings; a history of dreams, desires, and of special experiences, all of which I am the sum total.” -Charlie Chaplin

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12- “Remember, you can always stoop and pick up nothing.” -Charlie Chaplin

13- “Man as an individual is a genius. But men in the mass form the headless monster, a great, brutish idiot that goes where prodded.” -Charlie Chaplin

14- “What do you want a meaning for? Life is a desire, not a meaning.” -Charlie Chaplin

15- “The mirror is my best friend because when I cry it never laughs.” -Charlie Chaplin

16- “My only enemy is time.” -Charlie Chaplin

17- “I always like walking in the rain, so no one can see me crying.” -Charlie Chaplin

18- “I neither believe nor disbelieve in anything. That which can be imagined is as much an approximation to truth as that which can be proved by mathematics.” -Charlie Chaplin

19- “Our knowledge has made us cynical; our cleverness, hard and unkind. We think too much and feel too little. More than machinery, we need humanity. More than cleverness, we need kindness and gentleness. Without these qualities, life will be violent and all will be lost.” -Charlie Chaplin

20- “Patriotism is too deep a feeling to depict in the posing for a photograph.” -Charlie Chaplin

21- “My faith is in the unknown, in all that we do not understand by reason; I believe that what is beyond our comprehension is a simple fact in other dimensions, and that in the realm of the unknown there is an infinite power for good.” -Charlie Chaplin

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22- “By simple common sense I don’t believe in God, in none.” -Charlie Chaplin

23- “But there’s something just as inevitable as death. And that’s life. Think of the power of the universe — turning the Earth, growing the trees. That’s the same power within you — if you’ll only have the courage and the will to use it.” -Charlie Chaplin

24- “After all, there are more valid facts and details in works of art than there are in history books.” -Charlie Chaplin

25- “Smile, though your heart is aching. Smile, even though it’s breaking. When there are clouds in the sky, you’ll get by if you smile through your pain and sorrow. Smile and maybe tomorrow, you’ll see the sun come shining through for you.” -Charlie Chaplin

26- “I love rain because tears can not be seen in rain.” -Charlie Chaplin

27- “Think about yourself at least once in your life otherwise you may miss the best comedy in this world.” -Charlie Chaplin

28- “Your Pain May Give Laugh To Somebody But Your Laugh Shouldn’t Give Pain To Anybody.” -Charlie Chaplin

29- “Time is the best author. It always writes the perfect ending.” -Charlie Chaplin

30- “My lips never know my problem they just always smile.” -Charlie Chaplin

31- “Only the unloved hate.” -Charlie Chaplin

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32- “The way of life can be free and beautiful. But we have lost the way.” -Charlie Chaplin

33- “We all want to help one another. Human beings are like that. We want to live by each other’s happiness, not by each other’s misery.” -Charlie Chaplin

34- “Simplicity is not a simple thing.” -Charlie Chaplin

35- “People miss happiness by chasing after false values and repressing the feelings that make life valuable and beautiful. When you get up in the morning feeling fine your experience during just those few minutes or hours when you are reacting happily to life is an end in itself.” -Charlie Chaplin

36- “I like to walk in rain, so that nobody can see my tears.” -Charlie Chaplin

37- “Worry more about your conscience than your reputation. Because your conscience is what you are, your reputation is what others think of you. And what others think of you is their problem.” -Charlie Chaplin

38- “Movies are a fad. Audiences really want to see live actors on a stage.” -Charlie Chaplin

39- “I like friends as I like music; when I am in the mood.” -Charlie Chaplin

40- “From such trivia, I believe my soul was born.” -Charlie Chaplin

41- “That’s all any of us are: amateurs. We don’t live long enough to be anything else.” -Charlie Chaplin

42- “In this desperate way, I started many a comedy.” -Charlie Chaplin

43- “The heart and the mind … what an enigma.” -Charlie Chaplin

44- “I have no further use for America. I wouldn’t go back there if Jesus Christ was President.” -Charlie Chaplin

45- “All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman, and a pretty girl.” -Charlie Chaplin

46- “A tramp, a gentleman, a poet, a dreamer, a lonely fellow, always hopeful of romance and adventure.” -Charlie Chaplin

47- “I’ve arrived at the age where a platonic friendship can be sustained on the highest moral plane.” -Charlie Chaplin

48- “A day without laughing is a day wasted.” -Charlie Chaplin

49- “Nothing is permanent in this wicked world, not even our troubles.” -Charlie Chaplin

50- “Actors search for rejection. If they don’t get it they reject themselves.” -Charlie Chaplin

51- “Let us fight for a world of reason, a world where science and progress will lead to all men’s happiness.” -Charlie Chaplin

52- “Life is a play that does not allow testing. So, sing, cry, dance, laugh and live intensely, before the curtain closes and the piece ends with no applause.” -Charlie Chaplin

53- “Time heals, and experience teaches that the secret of happiness is in service to others.” -Charlie Chaplin

54- “In the light of our egos, we are all dethroned monarchs.” -Charlie Chaplin

55- “Despair is a narcotic. It lulls the mind into indifference.” -Charlie Chaplin

56- “Words are cheap. The biggest thing you can say is ‘elephant’.” -Charlie Chaplin

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57- “As I began to love myself I freed myself of anything that is no good for my health – food, people, things, situations, and everything that drew me down and away from myself. At first I called this attitude a healthy egoism. Today I know it is Love of Oneself.” -Charlie Chaplin

58- “I remain just one thing, and one thing only, and that is a clown. It places me on a far higher plane than any politician.” -Charlie Chaplin

59- “We no longer need to fear arguments, confrontations or any kind of problems with ourselves or others. Even stars collide, and out of their crashing new worlds are born. Today I know “THAT IS LIFE”!” -Charlie Chaplin

60- “That’s the trouble with the world. We all despise ourselves.” -Charlie Chaplin

61- “It isn’t the ups and downs that make life difficult; it’s the jerks.” -Charlie Chaplin

62- “A man’s true character comes out when he’s drunk.” -Charlie Chaplin

63- “Your naked body should only belong to those who fall in love with your naked soul.” -Charlie Chaplin

64- “You have to believe in yourself. That’s the secret.” -Charlie Chaplin

65- “In the end, everything is a gag.” -Charlie Chaplin

66- “That is all there is in life — beauty. You find that and you have found everything.” -Charlie Chaplin

67- “I believe in the power of laughter and tears as an antidote to hatred and terror.” -Charlie Chaplin

68- “Life can be wonderful if you’re not afraid of it. All it takes is courage, imagination … and a little dough.” -Charlie Chaplin

69- “I suppose that’s one of the ironies of life – doing the wrong thing at the right moment.” -Charlie Chaplin

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70- “Failure is unimportant. It takes courage to make a fool of yourself.” -Charlie Chaplin

71- “As I began to love myself I recognized that my mind can disturb me and it can make me sick. But as I connected it to my heart, my mind became a valuable ally. Today I call this connection “WISDOM OF THE HEART”.” -Charlie Chaplin

72- “Through humour, we see in what seems rational, the irrational; in what seems important, the unimportant.” -Charlie Chaplin

73- “Let us strive for the impossible. The great achievements throughout history have been the conquest of what seemed the impossible.” -Charlie Chaplin

74- “Perfect love is the most beautiful of all frustrations because it is more than one can express.” -Charlie Chaplin

75- “What do you want meaning for? Life is desire, not meaning.” -Charlie Chaplin

76- “The accumulating complexities of modern life, the kinetic invasion of the twentieth century finds the individual hemmed in by gigantic institutions that threaten from all sides, politically, scientifically and economically. We are becoming the victims of soul-conditioning, of sanctions and permits.” -Charlie Chaplin

77- “You need Power, only when you want to do something harmful otherwise Love is enough to get everything done.” -Charlie Chaplin

78- “I have many problems in my life. But my lips don’t know that”. They just keep smiling.” -Charlie Chaplin

79- “Life is a beautiful, magnificent thing! Even to a jellyfish!” -Charlie Chaplin

80- “One cannot always approach truth through reason; it confines us to a geometric cast of thought that calls for logic and credibility.” -Charlie Chaplin

81- “Beauty is an omnipresence of death and loveliness, a smiling sadness that we discern in nature and all things, a mystic communion that the poet feels.” -Charlie Chaplin

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82- “You’ll never find a rainbow if you’re looking down.” -Charlie Chaplin

83- “To help a friend in need is easy, but to give him your time is not always opportune.” -Charlie Chaplin

84- “You are only as good as the woman you are standing beside.” -Charlie Chaplin

85- “Life and death are too resolute, too implacable to be accidental.” -Charlie Chaplin

86- “The hate of men will pass, and dictators die, and the power they took from the people will return to the people. And so long as men die, liberty will never perish.” -Charlie Chaplin

87- “Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot.” -Charlie Chaplin

88- “Life laughs at you when you are unhappy; Life smiles at you when you are happy; But life salutes you when you make other happy.” -Charlie Chaplin

89- “Love is life on a higher plain of existence, working through man to unite the forces of nature into a perfect whole. It is the merging force binding every element in existence into a perfect whole.” -Charlie Chaplin

90- “I am at peace with God. My conflict is with Man.” -Charlie Chaplin

91- “Anyone can make them cry, but it takes a genius to make them laugh.” -Charlie Chaplin

92- “Life could be wonderful if people would leave you alone.” -Charlie Chaplin

93- “You, the people, have the power, the power to create machines, the power to create happiness! You, the people, have the power to make this life free and beautiful, to make this life a wonderful adventure.” -Charlie Chaplin

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94- “So when I cease to be I want to go back…to the sea! Oh for the life of a sardine! That is the life for me!” -Charlie Chaplin

95- “I do not need drugs to be a genius, do not take a genius to be human, but I need your smile to be happy.” -Charlie Chaplin

96- “As I began to love myself I stopped craving for a different life, and I could see that everything that surrounded me was inviting me to grow. Today I call it ‘maturity’.” -Charlie Chaplin

97- “Laughter is the tonic, the relief, the surcease for pain.” -Charlie Chaplin

98- “I’d sooner be called a successful crook than a destitute monarch.” -Charlie Chaplin

99- “In the creation of comedy, it is paradoxical that tragedy stimulates the spirit of ridicule; because ridicule, I suppose is an attitude of defiance: we must laugh in the face of our helplessness against the forces of nature – or go insane.” -Charlie Chaplin

100- “The saddest thing I can imagine is to get used to luxury.” -Charlie Chaplin

101- “To truly laugh, you must be able to take your pain, and play with it.” -Charlie Chaplin

102- “The best thing in life is to go ahead with all your plans and your dreams, to embrace life and to live everyday with passion, to lose and still keep the faith and to win while being grateful. All of this because the world belongs to those who dare to go after what they want. And because life is really too short to be insignificant.” -Charlie Chaplin

103- “As I began to love myself I refused to go on living in the past and worrying about the future. Now, I only live for the moment, where everything is happening. Today I live each day, day by day, and I call it “FULFILLMENT”.” -Charlie Chaplin

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